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This is a translation of Edmund HusserI's lecture course from the Summer semester 1907 at the University of Gottingen. The German original was pub- lished posthumously in 1973 as Volume XVI of Husserliana, Husserl's opera omnia. The translation is complete, including both the main text and the supplementary texts (as Husserliana volumes are usually organized), except for the critical apparatus which provides variant readings. The anunced title of the lecture course was Main parts of the pheme- logy and critique of reason. The course began with five, relatively inde- pendent, introductory lectures. These were published on their own in 1947, bearing the title The idea ojphemelogy.l The Five Lectures comprise a general orientation by proposing the method to be employed in the subsequent working out of the actual problems (viz., the method of phemelogical reduction ) and by clarifying, at least provisionally, some technical terms that will be used in the labor the subsequent lectures will carry out. The present volume, then, presents that labor, i.e., the method in action and the results attained. As such, this text dispels the abstract impression which could t help but cling to the first five lectures taken in isolation. Accord- ingly, we are here given genuine introductory lectures, i.e., an introduction to phemelogy in the genuine phemelogical sense of engaging in the work of phemelogy, going to the matters at issue themselves, rather than remaining aloof from them in abstract considerations of standpoint and approach.